Layne told me about the Chinese and the Bible. The regime in China will need to block progress by the missionaries there. She thinks that this should be very correct for the Chinese. Is this doing the right thing?

Layne reckons that one may be mistaken about this. She suggests that belief in God many not be always a wise thing at all. That's a droll claim of hers.

It's her opinion that it may not be well for Chinese power. It's her assertion that wealth of the Chinese will not be more unless China may block another system. Of course, she opines to me about these (things) that one may be in China growing wealthiest without the unfair competition.

Nevertheless, the Tibetans come to my mind. Perhaps 1.3 million died when they fell into the hands of the Chinese enemy. The Chinese murdered between twenty and forty million of their own people during the Cultural Revolution. They executed four million landlords in 1953. Nobody knows precisely how many.

Captean/Caption China's biggest bible factory:(Reuters): A worker packs new English language Bible books at Amity Printing factory in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, July 8, 2008. Amity, China's biggest Bible producer has made over 5 million Bibles for officially recognised Chinese churches in the past two years and exported about 5 million in roughly 75 languages. The factory has produced 30,000 copies of the New Testament (Chinese-English bilingual edition) for free distribution during the upcoming Beijing Olympic Games.

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